Machine Leader

Famous quotes containing the words machine and/or leader:

“A multitude of little superfluous precautions engender here a population of deputies and sub-officials, each of whom acquits himself with an air of importance and a rigorous precision, which seemed to say, though everything is done with much silence, “Make way, I am one of the members of the grand machine of state.””
—Marquis De Custine (1790–1857)

“To be a leader of men one must turn one’s back on men.”
—Havelock Ellis (1859–1939)